Image Left: Qattan Foundation; Image right: Robert Flynt

May 9 – May 12, 2012

Wednesday – Friday at 7:30pm
Saturday at 2:30pm & 7:30pm
Free Admission – Reservation Required.
*** Wait list starts one hour before curtain. There is no guarantee but we will try to accomodate as many as possible. Please come to the box office at 66 East 4th Street.***

Concept, Design and Choreography by Yoshiko Chuma and School of Hard Knocks

This is a fiction based on the true story Occupation Layer: PALESTINE by Yoshiko Chuma
featuring members of Palestinian Dance Troupe El-Funoun from Ramallah

Conceptual Artist/Choreographer/Artistic Director of The School of Hard Knocks Yoshiko Chuma continues a lifetime obsession with danger in her new work, Love Story, Palestine. Intentionally confusing documentation with history, Chuma tasks El-Funoun members Sari Husseini and Anas Abu Oun and NYC-based talents Miriam Parker, Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Saori Tsukada-—three performers who have never been to Palestine—with re-creating segments from her own documented works and experiences in Ramallah, Palestine. Chuma assembles a mosaic of images and interviews which pertain to pain and longing, as if framing theater with barbed wire. Traditional dance is juxtaposed with contemporary movement, video projection and spoken text in a borderless environment constantly reshaped by sculptural objects. Yoshiko Chuma herself performs on the backdrop of Robert Flynt’s photography.

Occupation Layer: Palestine from Robert Flynt on Vimeo.

Images by Robert Flynt, Animation by Hiroki Ohishi